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Would be nice to have webkitgtk.
We have been shipping a Tauri app for the past couple years and while the idea of not shipping a chromium seems nice in practice it is very hard to have a nice experience across all OS. Linux being the hardest because webkitgtk is really not that great to be polite.
Hey everyone!

I'm the CEO of the company that built this.

We're a company called E2B [0]. We're building and open-source [1] secure environments for running untrusted AI-generated code and AI agents. We call these environments sandboxes and they are built on top of micro VM called Firecracker [2]. We specifically decided to use Firecrackers instead of containers because of their security and ability to do snapshots.

You can think of us as giving small cloud computers to LLMs.
We recently created a dedicated SDK for building custom code interpreters in Python or JS/TS. We saw this need after a lot of our users have been adding code execution capabilities to their AI apps with our core SDK [3]. These use cases were often centered around AI data analysis so code interpreter-like behavior made sense

The way our code interpret SDK works is by spawning an E2B sandbox with Jupyter Server. We then communicate with this Jupyter server through Jupyter Kernel messaging protocol [4]. We work with an LLM and AI framework. We have different examples on how to use the SDK with Llama models, Anthropic models, LangChain, LangGraph, and more in our cookbook [5].

We don't do any wrapping around LLM, any prompting, or any agent-like framework. We leave all of that to our users. We're really just a boring code execution layer that sits at the bottom. We're building for the future software that will be building another software.
Our long-term plan is to build an automated AWS for AI apps and agents where AI can build and deploy its own software while giving developers powerful observability into what's happening inside our sandboxes. With everything being open-source.
Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!

[0] https://e2b.dev

[1] https://github.com/e2b-dev

[2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

[3] https://e2b.dev/docs

[4] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messaging.ht...

[5] https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook
I don't know - I think the author was hoping for tremendous indulgence from Kubrick when attempting to get him to green-light quotes like:

'There are good things in Lolita. But in too many respects it squanders, impoverishes and conventionalises its source material, draining it of its complexity, nymphetry and eroticism.'

It's valid criticism, because it's a point of view, but I wouldn't expect anything quite that harsh in a collaborative work.
Can you please avoid flamewars and tit-for-tat spats like this one, when posting on HN? It's definitely not what the site is for, and it makes boring reading.

One sign that a thread is leaving the rails is when people start arguing about their argument, as you guys did here and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280772

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40279988

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Why does Microsoft spend resources on their own model when they can freely use OpenAI models? The model must have some specific characteristics.
> Is this some kind of a cult?

Yes, it’s called Functional Programming.
Not sure about the US but in the UK, the government can close companies down for things like not filing taxes or failing to pay them for example. So it wouldn't be outwith the realms of possibility that a company making planes that are potentially unsafe could have their doors closed!

I'm not mega pro-government intervention but there are times I'd like to think my gov has my back... this is one of them!
The latest video [0] really explains the perspectives of diving into a black hole quite well.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rogm_lpVZYU
Where’s the money in that?

Google effectively owns internet search.
They see search as a sinking ship since AI is poised to replace search.

So now they’re just milking search for all they can before it goes bust.

Why show relevant links when 1000s of companies will pay you to show theirs and like 2/3rds (likely more) of your users won’t know the difference
I've seen design docs work when you have a relatively high number of junior roles compared to seniors. It forces the junior developers to think through their solutions ahead of time and justify their decisions, and it also allows senior developers to validate those decisions and give feedback asynchronously.

Granted, I've never worked in an org with more than 30-40 engineers, as I've always worked in startups. I'm sure things are different in big tech, but I've had positive experiences with them.
Raspberry Pi is getting into the services game
Perhaps in 1962, a big studio. But if Lolita had been tackled just a decade later when we had entered in the anything-goes era of filmmaking....
> I'm curious what % of matter in the Milky Way would be predicted to wind up in a black hole.

I can't back this up, but my theory would be near 100% of all matter ends up back in a black hole (in a very long time). If no energy is created or destroyed, whatever force is expanding the Universe will eventually un-expand it. The alternative to me seems insane - you have a closed system with finite states (insanely large numbers of finite states) that can never return to a previous state, even after near infinite time? Doesn't add up. I'm not aware of any closed-loop system (where energy is conserved) that doesn't return back to the original state.
I sincerely hope this whole Boeing debacle will be used as wake-up call for other large corporations, or the general public.

Most of them are not as safety-critical, but some of them are, thinking about Big Pharma and Chemical giants...
The parallels to cold fusion are hilarious! Maybe just to me
I know this comment comes a bit late, but thanks so much! That library is exactly the kind of thing I have been looking for. I've just signed up using your app. I'm curious, my UK passport didn't scan correctly with NFC. Do you only support EU docs for NFC validation? I expected the NFC scanning to work with any ICAO 9303 document.
> runs some kind of "agency" or "factory" that runs product engines for startups of software based companies

In most cases the product is the company, so outsourcing that learning, that eventually becomes tribal learning within the company culture, is incredibly dumb. Also to build a great product you have to understand you customers needs and solve problems for them, and you can't embed that understanding to imagine a future for them if you outsource it.

On the other hand there are thought leaders and coaches who will help you, and you can hire fractional executives to get you on your feet. See https://www.svpg.com/articles/

> run product engines

There's an entire profession for this, it's called product management.
Laws are made by politicians, not logical & benevolent public policy experts.

And direct startup investing ain't no Field of Dreams fantasy. The vast majority of startups fail. Plus - large-scale scamming operations exist, and average Joe's are often easy prey.
Raspberry Pi Connect
PLT was part of my CS degree, but only as a senior level course, and it was extremely abstract, and extremely difficult. Double majors (common with business) were exempt from it.

I think it’s fair to say that almost none of my fellow CS degree holders from that cohort (which was neither a rinky-dink program nor full of dim witted students) could do what we’re discussing here, and if they can it’s because they either were uniquely talented at the lecture material or learned it outside of their coursework, probably after graduation.
Espresso AI emerges from stealth with $11M to tackle the cloud cost crisis
Literally everybody, and likely adults more than teens, since adults usually have more money.
Triggers have much larger overhead than writing to the replication stream (which most databases should be doing anyway), so if you have a lot of traffic this is faster.
Yes, if your information is stored with a third-party, it can be subject to disclosure with a lawful subpoena.
While I’d like to see the alternative NASA get more funding — for low orbit work I don’t see why we shouldn’t be boot strapping private industry.

Eventually though those subsidies will need to wind down but there’s too few competitors at this point.
Except when you contribute to open-source, you typically have a legal document (the licence) that explains how the exposure will be paid.
You are correct of course,
https://github.com/Maldela/fancontrol-gui/commit/1667dc46651...

However, I don't want my locale to reflect all units this way.

I might try overriding the locale for this single process, however I it was just easier for me to compile a patched version of the code that was available on the Arch User Repository already.

Though I have no idea why the git version defaults to Celsius.
If your threat model is "utilize secure email/VPN/tor to evade organizations on the spectrum of [law enforcement...intelligence services]" you are not a typical user even of those services and saying that it's on you to understand all the corner cases and tricks to avoid persecution, prosecution, execution, etc. seems pretty reasonable.
It's a well known phenomenon that over time profits tend to fall [1]. Investors demand growth however so the consequence is obvious: all companies will tend to try and increase prices and/or cut costs to maintain profits.

Raising prices tends to lower demand. It might be the case that a lower volume at higher margin leads to a higher gross profit but often it doesn't. So raising prices tends to be limited to where demand is ineleastic or you have or can construct a monopoly or enclosure of some kind.

So most companies have to resort o cutting costs. This means suppressing wages and doing what Boeing has done in spades: using subcontracting to lower costs. Being is now in the FAFO phase of cost-cutting. Since around the time of the McDonnell-Douglas merger, the engineers lost and the accountants won.

Once again, this Steve Jobs quote [2] is apropos.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKsbt5wii0
and _that_ is why I'm still very sad that Lotus Improv didn't make it in the marketplace --- gathering all the formulae into one pane was _incredible_ for organization and providing a single top-level view of what a spreadsheet was doing.

I really wish Flexisheet would get to a usable point, or that Quantrix wasn't so expensive.
shutting it fully down would likely be very difficult, but the FAA definitely has the authority to not certify any Boeing planes for a couple years and let Boeing go bankrupt
I'm going to quote https://save-nix-together.org/:

> Single-handedly blocking Meson, which has a passed RFC, for five years because he doesn’t know meson but knows his own build system

I don't know about exact timelines, but the letter is definitely wrong about this part.
He misses the most important point: that human culture dictates everything.

If you import people with degen culture you get degen living and crime conditions.

Thinking that you could easily change the system without first changing culture is naive.

The culture will change the system back to what the culture is.

Those people that function well in a better system will leave system and go elsewhere if a degen culture starts to overtake the superior culture.
Alcohol and even arsenic are diuretics too. Removing liquid, using it to thin any poisons is how our bodies attempt to deal with poisons.

Anything that's extremely bad for you is a diuretic.
Looks great!

Killer feature: allow arbitrary surfaces to be used (choice of 2D projection if in higher dimensions). And integrate in Python to allow use in production! Allow arbitrary zoom and level of detail of surface.
First, you wrote about ‘the country’ as if it’s a monolith. Second, working out what you mean more precisely is hard when you fail to give even the slightest explanation of why it’s the judiciary specifically that wants to preserve the status quo.
Honestly, I do not understand it myself either. I just understand the mechanisms behind it but I do not understand why one would logically want less money.
The Stray Shopping Cart Project
Boeing about to launch astronauts aboard new capsule in entry to space travel
Explanation isn't excuse. You're confounding the two.
I've actually done that same concept a while back when whisper.cpp came out. A significant challenge is sane paragraph segmentation, as even humans don't often agree on the best place for a line break. I wonder what approach you've used.
That's not really the problem - DHCP's subnet mask option is definitely not weird or legacy but can also be used to execute these attacks.

The real problem is that encrypted packets from the VPN client use the same routing table as unencrypted packets from applications. This makes it very difficult to create a robust routing policy that says "all unencrypted packets are routed via the VPN, and all encrypted packets are routed via the physical network interface".
The mistake was production of a design doc instead of just writing the code. If it's trivial enough that there's nothing to discuss, you generally just change the code. If it's complicated enough, it becomes a negotiation process where at least 5 different people have to be able to put it into their perf if you want to get it done.
This would almost certainly fail legally on "taking" grounds.

It also fails politically, since Boeing is a critical US defence contractor, and the US is not going to cut off its supply of parts for military aircraft. Killing Boeing is a fantasy.
Tokenized Private-Credit Platform Untangled Opens Its First USDC Lending Pool
Not sure what you mean: there have, to-date, been no repercussions for Boeing! They're getting away with all kinds of shit here!

In an ideal world, companies with a massive safety-related function should have Warhammer 40k gun servitors hovering over the execs in the event they cut corners on safety with orders to empty the clip!

Boeing are really a gov extension these days from what I can see.
At some point, the cargo cult are the promo reviewers and then the two become the same thing.
The key word in this post is "discipline".

What would you take:

- a big feature change on a code that uses only goto as structure flow that was coded by a disciplined experimented coder who had maintainability in mind and hearth

- a small bug fix in code base using every C++ feature under the sun by a wanna show beginner
China owns the west. We won't do anything to stop them or their allies, not anything serious.
Embrace (done), extend (in progress), ...
Yes, namespaces are the gold standard solution.
Who Pays You? and Why?
I specifically call out the memory difference though precisely because I know they’re different.

But I do not believe the cost for 192GB of HBM3 + any related changes to the memory system on the chips would be $13k, which is the difference between the Mac Studio and the MI300A.
> One sign that a thread is leaving the rails is when people start arguing about their argument

I was attempting to reformulate/rephrase my discussion to avoid low-effort and groundless dismissal of my good faith points. I was all but asking them why they believe the way they do and what they believe, to no avail. I was turning their own words against them in order to hold a mirror up to the absurdity of carrying on like they do when all else failed.

Thanks for the points all the same, including my debate partner, after all this, and also to dang, naturally.
Please quote from the linked article where it says that (it doesn't).
How Quantum Computers Work
They don't have to be enforcable. Not many people have a spare $10-$20k in their savings account they are willing to spend on legal bills to get an unenforcable non-compete thrown out.
Most code is not written with the latest technologies or techniques though.

Why would being up to date matter?
1-Measure-3-1
“The industry likes to put the responsibility on the individual,” says the study’s author, Marcus Eriksen, a plastic pollution expert from The 5 Gyres Institute.

“But we’d like to point out that it’s the brands, it’s their choice for the kinds of packaging [they use] and for embracing this throwaway model of delivering their goods. That’s what’s causing the greatest abundance of trash.”

That seems like an adequate point coming from the industry.
I think a more interesting statistic would be obtained by dividing the trash by the volume of sales. Otherwise, it doesn't seem meaningful that the items sold more often are more prevalent in litter.
What's next after optimizing for Snowflake costs?
They did extreme protests like road blockages, and some other stuff which the government considered sabotage and so pursued them with anti-terrorist legislation.

Also some members were arrested apparently planning even more extreme things.

The IRA and ETA were vying for independence too...

That said, I think it's crazy how much time the government wastes on this when the cities are full of petty criminals acting with impunity. Someone was stabbed to death outside my apartment just in a robbery and yet nothing changes.
You should be arrested for implying drinking urine can help with anything medical. That's all I can say.
Accountability seems to be slower in the pharma industry, but it did come for Theranos and Purdue. There doesn't seem to be the same kind of safety issue, only horrific pricing issues and a complicated supply problem for certain kinds of medications.
I know. But the M2 Ultra is the MI300A’s competitor. I couldn’t find the pricing for the GH100, but used the H100 as a standin since it’s already so much more expensive to not really affect the point I was making.
.GPT
I am a fan. But not in the way it is mostly being used.

A lot of the songs that Suno generates are "good enough". I've been using it recently to do two things. First is to make a set of instrumental songs I call "Canoe Camping in Canada". Basically: Instrumental Americana Folk Accoustic. It is doing really good and generating ambient soundscape songs. I've spent about a week of free credits working and reworking parts of songs it generates.

The second is to make some 15 second showcard jingle music. I create short ads (15-30 seconds) for local companies and events that show at our independent one screen theater in-town before the movie starts. I just needs some audio to slap in while I show an image and some text about something. It works great for that too.

I was kind of curious about if what I was generating would be flagged as copyrighted, like if bits of the songs or melodies were directly out of something else. So, I upload them to Youtube to let their AI see if it can figure that out and haven't been flagged yet. I know that isn't a definitive answer, but to me it is "good enough".
>I suppose the second learning is to elect governments which respect democratic freedoms,

This will _never_ happen. It's the human condition....
Beautiful hardware, but wouldn't a 3.5MHz Z80 have been underpowered for a server in the early 80s? That's the CPU in a Spectrum 48k, not exactly a high end machine in 1982.
Spot on haha.

The promo design doc is directly incentivized by managers: “if you just see a bunch of CLs, it doesn’t tell a story. You need to write it down as a coherent narrative and get some >L5s to comment on it”. “It’s not for me it’s for the committee - they aren’t familiar with your work so you need to explain it”.

> But again, they were no engineer, they were a director, I guess design docs make sense for their position

Yeah I think it’s just high potency ammunition in the middle management[1] turf wars. Not even product managers care much about DDs.

[1]: Liberal definition: anyone who uses the word “cross-functional” colloquially, independent of their actual job title.
Ideally, the round trip efficiency of abiabatic CAES is 100%, as would be the ideal round trip efficiency of isothermal CAES.

What isothermal CAES (with heat storage) would require is a larger storage volume per unit of energy storage capacity, since less heat is generated during the ideal compression. That heat generation is not inefficiency, it's something you want!

Only if the heat is discarded and you reheat with fuel do you benefit from isothermal compression.
"Hackers" became an incredibly diluted term, and I wouldn't describe the readers of this site as such.
Spain had to deal with homegrown terrorism not that long ago. Not excusing them, but it should be pointed out for more context.
Very easily worked around with -Wno
Photopea – Free Photoshop Clone Makes over $2M per Year
Weird, it didn't do that for me. It just opened the one recipe.
In other words: you have a better chance of not being scammed (better chance of fair play) gambling.

As far as the odds of breaking even or doubling your money- who knows?

I think the other point is: if you're not wealthy and you lose a large sum, it has a huge impact, maybe destitution. If you are wealthy and you lose the same large sum, it won't matter so much to you. Investment isn't generally in $5 or $10 amounts. (Maybe there's an investment model available, but that's where the scammers prey.)
Use pipx to install applications instead. It even works on Windows.

> pipx install pyspread
installed package pyspread 2.2.3, installed using Python 3.12.3
These apps are now globally available
- pyspread.exe
done!
> I guess the real question is how to increase voter turnout.

Count the votes.
"consumer" is sometimes used as codespeak left leaning circles meaning: someone who implicitly agrees with capitalism and uses it without much real criticism.

So an "investor" of your type is just someone who is more of a consumer. As they consume not only food or housing for example, but they also consume investment opportunities.
Is this the kind of problem that is being uncovered because of the extra scrutiny that Boeing is currently under? To put it another way, is this the kind of problem that is endemic across industry and we’re only finding out now because we are taking the time to look?

One can only imagine the horrors lurking in industries lucky enough not to have had any famous failures recently.
The coding interview looks different when you view it for what it would be called in other industries: a licensure examination. It looks particularly insane to relicense for every single job you apply to. It also looks supremely unfair to have proctors for this exam with varying expectations and training to actually correctly administer it.
Encoding Bitwise Functions as Polynomials
My local 'non-profit' hospital is one of the most expensive in the state, and has a total monopoly over its area. It paid cash for a $140m new tower right as covid started, and complained loudly about losing $13m one year and having to lay off staff, and not having money to pay nurses more, while sitting on a $1B 'rainy day fund'.
We're crackers.
Copilot 360

XCopilot X

XCopilot Series X
In fact, they'll likely be rewarded for delivering results.
Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners works for the Nordic countries
While I agree with almost everything, I disagree with the "zero". Musk's perceived pettiness can easily handicap spaceX. The goal to colonize Mars is noble but not profitable. Gwynne Shotwell could one day say to to his ideas, she and her top level management team could get canned, and I would say that would be an irrecoverable error.

Second, redundancy is good, although I wish the other provider was not Boeing. even Dragon at one point exploded, and at that time starliner and dragon had very different perceived trajectories. Of course, with Eric Berger's new article on ars technica on Boeing, it's a wonder Starliner even exists.
Gradual set-theoretic types (Elixir v1.17.0-dev docs)
I sure hope the investigation finds some fault with management for creating an environment where falsifying records was considered an option.